APPRENTICE JOCKEY FROM COUNTY CORK JAILED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT.

06 July 2016

A 23 year old apprentice jockey from County Cork has been
sentenced to four years in prison for
sexual assault and false imprisonment.
Maurice Fitzgerald, of Abbeyview in Buttevant pleaded guilty
to five counts relating to the 20th of September , 2015.
The court heard that a young student experienced a
"a nightmare scenario" after she was randomly selected
by Fitzgerald outside a nightclub in Tralee.
The court also heard that when arrested he told gardaí that ,
he was angry after the student rejected his sexual advances.
Fitzgerald was on bail at the time for a similar sexual assault
offence in Tipperary of which he is now serving four years .
Judge Thomas E O'Donnell sentenced him to a further four years
to begin at the completion of his current sentence.